Lesley Cookman

Lesley, who lives alone or with an occasional returning child on the Kent coast, started writing almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth's exercise books with pony stories until she was old enough to go
out with boys.

Since she's been grown up, following a varied career as a model, air stewardess and disc jockey, she's written short fiction and features for a variety of magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales, taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first Sexy Shorts collection of short stories from Accent Press in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign.

Her pantomimes are published and performed all over the world.  Murder in Steeple Martin is her first novel, which Hilary saw in its earliest incarnation very many years ago, and gave her the encouragement to get on with it!

www.lesleycookman.co.uk

Titles: Writing A Pantomine (How To Books), Sexy Shorts For Christmas (Ed), Murder in Steeple Martin; Murder At The Laurels, next: Murder in Midwinter (October) (Accent Press)

Murder at The Laurels

Could it have been murder? When old Eleanor Bridges dies on her birthday at The Laurels nursing home, no-one except her niece, Fran Castle, suspects anything. But when the will goes missing, and Fran s newly discovered relatives appear to be doing everything in their power to obstruct investigations, she enlists the help of her friend Libby Sarjeant. Together, they uncover sinister events in the past, greed and elements of witchcraft, all of which provide a multiplicity of motives, and it isn t until a second body is discovered that the murderer is unmasked.